Facial recognition and fingerprint identification technology is meant to keep you safer — but does it? (Photo: Getty) You have private information that you want to keep, well, private, and that's ...

In the 2012 film Skyfall, Q presents James Bond with a special handgun for his latest mission — a Walther PPK 9mm short — fitted with a sensor encoded to Bond's palm print so only he can fire it. It's ...

Fingerprint recognition and enhancement remain at the forefront of biometric research, addressing the persistent challenges in reliably identifying individuals from often degraded or latent prints.

Touchless fingerprint recognition systems represent a transformative shift in biometric technology by eliminating the need for physical contact during image acquisition. This paradigm circumvents ...

Fingerprints, long one of the most widely accepted biometric identifiers, are unique and permanent. Their images, formed of multiple curve segments, comprise high areas called ridges and low areas ...

House Democrats are moving to slow the rapid spread of mobile facial recognition and fingerprint tools inside the Department ...

Modern Windows PCs often include some kind of biometric hardware, mainly in the form of facial recognition (using infrared cameras) or fingerprint scanning. Both of these features let you use Windows ...

Human identification by fingerprints is based on the fundamental premise that ridge patterns from distinct fingers are different (uniqueness) and a fingerprint pattern does not change over time ...

The MCF5249 [this part searched easily] ColdFire device interfaces directly to the fingerprint sensor through the external bus interface. After the fingerprint scan is complete, the data is ...

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo suggests the next iPhone will have an all-glass front with a virtual home button, but questions whether that button will support fingerprint recognition. I'm PCMag's ...

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